Title :
An FGPA Based General Purpose DAQ Module for the KLOE-2 Experiment
Author :
Branchini, P. ; Budano, A. ; Balla, A. ; Beretta, M. ; Ciambrone, P. ; De Lucia, E.
Author_Institution :
Sezione di Roma 3, INFN, Rome, Italy
Abstract :
A general purpose FPGA based DAQ module has been developed. This module has been built around a Virtex-4 FPGA and it is able to acquire up to 1024 different channels distributed over 10 slave cards. The module has an optical interface, a RS-232 port, a USB and a Gigabit Interface. The KLOE-2 experiment is going to use this module to acquire data from the Inner tracker. An embedded processor (Power PC) is present on the FPGA and a telnet server has been developed and installed. A new general purpose data taking system has been based on this new module to acquire the Inner Tracker. The system is presently working at LNF (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati).
Keywords :
data acquisition; field programmable gate arrays; high energy physics instrumentation computing; particle calorimetry; position sensitive particle detectors; proportional counters; scintillation counters; DAQ module; Gigabit Interface; KLOE-2 experiment; Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati; RS-232 port; Virtex-4 FPGA; data acquisition system; data taking system; inner tracker; optical interface; slave cards; telnet server; Buildings; Data acquisition; Detectors; Field programmable gate arrays; Optical fiber communication; Physics; Servers; Data acquisition; GEM; trigger;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TNS.2011.2158609
